Jump Showdown Tier List

S tier

Godly Highschooler: Renewal Taekwondo, Whirlwind Slam, Dragon Dropkick, Triple Kick Counter, then Heaven’s Equal at 99.9% on activation. Heaven Piercer is 76% and can convert to 100% if you clear the QTE with ten or more points. Pressure Points on kill is a coin flip between a 1.2x buff, a cooldown reset, or a debuff. Cursed Child: Onslaught, Bloody Mary, Lethal Wound, Fight sliders, then Cursed Remedy / Special Hell / Seven Souls in awakening. Special Hell is gated behind landing the other two pieces. Both kits demand execution; both delete 100 HP bars when they hit.

A tier

Unsealed Sorcerer is the best new-player main: complete tools, RCT healing, Purple as a bar-dump. Unhinged Esper is the anti-zoner with Vector Reflection and The Strongest at 70%. They sit under S because their floors are lower, not because they are unplayable. If your parry is inconsistent, Sorcerer still gives you a kit. Esper asks you to understand vectors or you just have a medium punch string.

B tier

Greatest Psychic: weak base numbers, absurd Mob Mode and 1000% Exorcism if you live that long. Unwanted God: best “I press melee” kit, lowest documented awakening ceiling (Spartan Rage at 41% with several moves unpublished). Edgerunner: Sandevistan is a 0% damage reposition by design; Cyber Skeleton numbers are still thin in public docs, so he sits on base-kit math. These three are the beginner fork if S-tier QTEs feel miserable on mobile — see mobile controls.

Subs, unranked, and what we will not fake

Living Blade’s Phantom Dominion is a 100% single hit. That does not make him S; he has no second kit. Silk Weaver, Burning Star, Short Alchemist, World Event bodies, and exclusives stay unranked or note-only until damage tables exist. Vergil is not on this list. Collab leftovers are not on this list. If a thumbnail ranks “Wukong” separately from Godly Highschooler, close it — they are the same monkey king. Method notes match the review: we would rather leave a row blank than invent a 60%.